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Fred Williams Week 2 preview http://www.sportsnetwork.com/merge/tsnform...aspx?id=4162120 ***** Surprise! Hamilton Tiger-Cats 32....Toronto Argonauts 13 The Ticat defense was stout! http://www.globesports.com/servlet/story/R...lobeSports/home http://slam.canoe.ca/Slam/Football/CFL/Gam...6059961-cp.html http://www.sportsnetwork.com/merge/tsnform...aspx?id=4162208

In the late 50s I lived in the Washington, DC, metro. We had our own Bozo. I read many years later that it was Willard Scott!

I see at the BMG site that the latest Van Morrison is in.

Happy Birthday WD!

Reading between the lines, it was my impression that in the 50s Sahl was a Democrat poking fun at the Republican administration. So all the Democrats in the audience thought he was funny. In the 60s he was poking fun at the Democratic administrations, and the Democrats in the audience didn't think it was so funny anymore. I remember seeing Sahl a number of times on TV in the 60s explaining how his act was to poke fun at whoever was in office at the time, and it seemed to me that he was justifying his act, apparently in response to audience negativity.

No one has mentioned The First Family from 1961 yet. I suspect that it's popularity was based solely on the popularity of Jack and Jackie themselves rather than the jokes. So I imagine that hearing it today wouldn't be so amusing. But I could be wrong. Does anybody have it?

I like the fact that the city got the Cleveland Browns deal. I wish New Orleans had the same deal for its basketball team. Hornets is a North Carolina concept from the Revolutionary War. And the Utah Jazz? Or the Los Angeles Lakers? Or the Los Angeles Dodgers? edit for typo

BM, Carter had liver pills, not little pills!

My favorite is Carla Bley and the Lost Chords find Paolo Fresu. I also like Norma Winstone - Distances Nik Bartsch's Ronin - Holon John Surman - The Places In Between Manu Katche - Playground

I received this press release from ECM today: Manfred Eicher and ECM top DownBeat Critics Poll Manfred Eicher is voted Producer of the Year and ECM Records is Label of the Year 2008 in the DownBeat Critics Poll: this double-win is announced in the August issue of internationally renowned DownBeat magazine, which includes full results of their 56th Annual International Critics Poll. The awards arrive as Munich-based ECM, founded 1969, approaches its 40th anniversary year. While Eicher won DownBeat's Top Producer award in 1976, and ECM was Label of the Year in 1980, the 2008 poll marks the very first occasion that label and producer have simultaneously held the #1 slot. Eicher and his independent label have received significant recognition over the years, notably Eicher's Grammy for Classical Producer of the Year in 2002, and most recently in 2007 by receiving awards as both Classical Label of the Year and Jazz Label of the Year (prizes from, respectively, the MIDEM Classical Awards in Cannes, and the Jazz Journalists Association).

To put it in perspective: Bob Newhart's autobiography came out late 2006. In it he says that his first album, which came out in 1960, won the Grammy for Best Spoken Word album because there was no comedy album category yet.

Paul, I've enjoyed it each time I've put it on, but it's not a smiley kind of album.

I have recently received promos of a couple of new vocal albums which are worth recommending. The Nicolas Bearde is called Live At Yoshi's/A Salute to Lou. Recorded last October 16, it was party time at Yoshi's. You can tell that everyone in the audience had a smile on his face the whole time. Bearde is more of an adult pop singer than a jazz singer. The band was a sax/piano/bass/drums quartet with a little soloing by the sax. The songs are standards, including a medley of Lou Rawls' hits. Bearde has a very good voice. I like this one a lot. ***** Ed Reed has issued his second album on his own Blue Shorts label called The Song is You. You may recall our discussion of his first album from a year ago, Sings Love Songs, here: http://www.organissimo.org/forum/index.php...994&hl=Reed Reed is an old man who can still sing, and that's just what he sounds like. He reminds me of Uncle Remus in Song of the South singing Zippa Dee Doo Dah. This too is an album of standards, albeit recorded in a studio. I noticed that Doug Ramsey featured this on his Rifftides blog.

If you're on an ECM kick, you might like a new solo piano album by Jon Balke called Book of Velocities. It's very quiet with a pretty fair amount of noodling. Good background music. Not as moody as many ECMs, but not at all joyous either. You won't have any problem talking over it.

Happy Birthday Robert!

The Globe & Mail has a Canada Day quiz on Canadian and American history. http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/sto...adaDay2008/home I got 18 of 20, missing only both questions regarding women's suffrage.

Today is Dominion Day, Canada's national holiday. On July 1, 1867, Canada became a distinct dominion within the British Empire. This is the non-political forum, so I won't get into my opinion of Pierre Trudeau changing the name to Canada Day. My grandmother was a Canadian, born in Tweed, Ontario, in 1878. So a toast to her memory, and to all of you Canadians today!

Happy Birthday Late! Happy Birthday Face!

I hear quite a bit of 50s Verve on Sirius, and for the most part I find it boring. The artists seem to have lost their youth. On the other hand, I think I have liked all of the Creed Taylor 60s Verves that I've heard over the years. Taylor made records that were quality, but wouldn't scare off the people who didn't consider themselves to be jazz fans.

But its not an official no-hitter because the Dodgers didn't bat in the ninth. so its more of a curiosity than a real feat. Dan, Elias be damned. I'm surprised you buy into that. When the game ends and one team doesn't have any hits, it's a no hitter, "official" or otherwise!

I thought you guys would be all over this: Angels no-hit Dodgers, and lose! http://www.globesports.com/servlet/story/R...tsBaseball/home Fifth time in major league history.

Saskatchewan Roughriders 34....Edmonton Eskimos 13 Half the league has first time CFL head coaches. I don't recall anything like that before. And all four new coaches won their coaching debuts this week! How long before Maciocia is shown the door? http://slam.canoe.ca/Slam/Football/CFL/Gam...6016341-cp.html

I hate that candy bar - but I knew what it looked like. Dan, every Charleston Chew I've ever seen was flatter than that photo.

12 My favorite is Charleston Chew, and their example doesn't look like one to me. I missed my favorite!

Happy Birthday Stefan!